A preview of Epistrophies and Heads an exhibition by Tony Bevan
Haunting and exploratory, Bevan’s work twist familiar shapes and present them as evocative spatial forms. In some ways, his overt approach to using paint on canvas, reveals a ritual or shamanic process of creation, where the result captures the artist’s transmigration of immanent concept onto the canvas through an articulation of space. The results are their own things, mirrors of an internal conversation but also strange and unauthored, they have their own paths, silences, and disputes – as though the paint traced some chthonic remembrance rather than the outline of an imagined ideal.
October 31, 2023
